esorediate

esorediate

English

Etymology

From e- +‎ sorediate.

Adjective

esorediate (not comparable)

1. Lacking soredia.
   • 1979, John Walter Thomson, Lichens of the Alaskan Arctic Slope, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 130:

     Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd. Primary squamules persistent or disappearing; small, or becoming as large as 12 mm × 5 mm, irregularly crenately incised or lobed; yellowish, the base becoming orange to blackish brown; esorediate.

   • 1995, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, page 64:

     […] 1-4 cm tall, not scyphose, simple at base, branching above, each branch longitudinally grooved and becoming split, with open axils, rarely with scattered squamules along the poderia, esorediate, greyish white.

   • 2007, James Wadsworth Hinds; Patricia L. Hinds, The Macrolichens of New England: Descriptions, Color Illustrations, Identification Keys, Conservation Status, The New York Botanical Garden Press, →ISBN, page 183:

     Primary squamules persistent, small, to 2 mm long, gray to olive above, white below, esorediate or margins with granular soredia;